The earning HIVE to buy STEEM is kind of a red herring anyhow, as is how he spends his tokens in general. My issue is his slowwalker style pay yourself with alts schtick, which he obviously went to a lot of effort to conceal. Keep in mind, this is the same person who would drop 100% upvotes on his 3-word comments, right before the timer expired. When called out after the whole 'new steem' thing he switched to trading votes--whatever. Fast forward to now, getting 40-50 bucks for 400-word commentary posts just wasn't enough for him. It's a slap in the face to those with significantly less stake putting in the work. Zero sympathy, I don't care who he chats with on discord.

Any small account doing this would have been righteously chased off and blacklisted. I will not support a 2-tier system of acceptable behavior. I don't care how much stake you have.